FRANCE AND EUROPEANA
An overview Sarah Bernard à sa sortie du conservatoire 25 January 2021 Bibliothèque de l’Alliance israélite universelle Public Domain France and Europeana: an overview
Table of contents
FRANCE AND EUROPEANA
Intro 3
Presidency of the Council of the European Union 4
Highlights 5
Funding and projects 5
Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 6
France’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6
France in Europeana Collections 8
End notes 10 France and Europeana: an overview
Intro
The Europeana Initiative drives digital available through Europeana Collections. transformation and is responsible for With content from every EU country (and Europeana Collections - Europe’s beyond), an interface available in every platform for digital cultural heritage. It is EU language, and an award-winning financed by the European Union’s series of APIs that give access to its Connecting Europe Facility and content, Europeana Collections is the European Union Member States. only place that offers up Europe’s treasure trove of cultural heritage to the France and its cultural heritage world. By encouraging open licensing, institutions are indispensable partners, the Europeana Initiative makes more supporting the Europeana Initiative and culture available to more people, so it Europeana Foundation financially, and can be used in education, research and contributing to the diversity of content the creative industries.
Europeana Collections, Europeana, 2018, Public Domain
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Presidency of the Council of the European Union
German presidency Europeana background to digital transformation and conference - The Europeana conference copyright, where we stand, and what under the German Presidency on 5 and 6 might come next. It was agreed that there October explored the role that copyright is a need to collaborate across the sector. plays in the digital transformation of the Europeana will explore ways to keep an cultural heritage sector1. The conference up-to-date overview of positive initiatives was organised in collaboration with the across the Member States, and will German National Library as part of the continue engaging in discussions on how cultural programme of the German the copyright in the Digital Single Market Presidency. More than 40 DCHE members Directive can support the sector. and copyright advocates and experts from 21 countries participated in the event. The conference looked at the
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Highlights
Building Digital Capacity: sense-making Introducing the Europeana MOOC ‘Digital findings and outcomes: https://pro. Education with Cultural Heritage’: https:// europeana.eu/post/building-digital- pro.europeana.eu/post/introducing-the- capacity-sense-making-findings-and- europeana-mooc-digital-education-with- outcomes cultural-heritage
Approaches for handling multilingualism for digital cultural heritage: https://pro. europeana.eu/post/approaches-for- handling-multilingualism-for-digital- cultural-heritage
Funding and projects
Since 2008, France has contributed Europeana Initiative projects with partial €450,000. EU funding in France since 2008 are listed below. 8 partners from France are To date €1,433,516 from the budget currently contributing to ongoing projects, provided by the EU to fund Europeana which directly support content, knowledge Initiative projects has contributed to and technology sharing between libraries, activities in France. museums, archives, software agencies, university research departments and the Europeana Initiative.
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Professional participation - Europeana Network Association
The Europeana Network Association is a strong and democratic community of experts working in the field of digital heritage, united by a shared mission to expand and improve access to Europe’s digital cultural heritage.
Currently, 52 people from France are a Europeana Network Association member, and as such are involved in a range of activities, sharing best practices, learning and collaborating within the cultural heritage sector.
France’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections
Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions million objects of which 4,981,976 are provided by French institutions. 54 cultural heritage institutions in France contribute to Europeana Collections. The Aggregation largest partners are listed in the following table. A full breakdown of All objects aggregated by France can be institutions and objects can be found found here2. The main point of contact here3. for France is Culture.fr / Moteur.
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OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA DATA PARTNERS COLLECTION
Bibliothèque nationale de France / National Library of France 2,846,958
Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine / Ministry of Culture and Communication, Media Library of Architecture and 510,877 Heritage
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle / Natural history museum 502,140
Archives départementales de la Gironde / Departmental archives of Gironde 222,125
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel / National Audiovisual Institute 184,178
Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Musées de France / Ministry of Culture 173,279 and Communication, Museums of France
Ministère de la culture et de la communication, conservations régionales des monuments historiques / Ministry of Culture and Communication, Regional Preservation of Historic 128,192 Monuments
Ministère de la culture et de la communication, services régionaux de l'archéologie / 110,142 Ministry of Culture and Communication, Regional Archeology Services
Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé, Paris / Interuniversity Health Library, Paris 47,992
Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris / Decorative Arts and Design Museum 36,800
Parisienne de Photographie 35,134
Centre national de la recherche scientifique - Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie 21,443
Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire / National and University Library of Strasbourg 21,320
Cité de la musique / City of Music 19,779
IRCAM-Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique / Institute for Research 19,450 and Coordination in Acoustics/Music
Bibliothèque de l’INHA / Library of the National Institute of History of Art 18,704
Bibliothèque Medem-Maison de la Culture Yiddish / Medem Library-House of Yiddish 14,330 Culture
Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Archives nationales / Ministry of Culture 11,709 and Communication, National Archives
Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, FIFF, Paris, France / 10,018 Créteil International Women’s Film Festival
CNRS-LARHRA-Phonobase 8,167
Openly licensed data 13% of the 4,981,976 objects in Europeana Collections provided by Openly licensed material can be France are openly licensed4. 0.7% of promoted widely, reaching millions more these objects are shown with the people, and can be used in innovative internationally accredited Public Domain products, apps and services that bring mark5, 10.1% is licensed under CC BY6 culture to the classroom, the newsroom, and 2.2% is licensed under CC07. the science lab and the kickstarters.
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La récréation, Bibliothèque de l’Alliance israélite universelle, Public Domain Marked France in Europeana Collections
2018 2019 2020
Visits to Europeana Collections 142,174 138,379 186,998 from France
Total views of objects from France 175,1778 165,906 232,445 worldwide
Most-viewed object from France Biography. Hilarion Rubio Biography. Hilarion Rubio Biography. Hilarion Rubio9 worldwide
90% of visits from France browsed Objects on thematic Collections: Europeana Collections in French, 5% in Migration: 48,581 English and 5% used other languages. 1914-1918: 67,977 Art: 141,845 Sport: 19,604
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End notes
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